Episodes

Dead Body

Professor Sue Black is joined by Emilia Fox to tell the life story of a 1000-year-old skeleton

Missing Body

The Professor works with a leading detective and other forensic experts to investigate a mysterious crime scene

Living Body

Leading King's Counsel and other experts join Professor Sue Black to show how forensic evidence is interrogated in a court

The Series

In the 2022 RI Christmas Lectures Sue Black, the UK's leading forensic anthropologist, shares the secrets of the real-life scientific detective process she uses to identify both the dead and the living. 

She'll reveal why we shouldn't believe everything we see in our favourite TV crime dramas; and using key cases from her remarkable career, she'll explore the huge leaps forward forensic science has made as well as some of its limitation - plus what the future might hold.

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3 x 60' for BBC4